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Ohappyday
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Newbie question: how to replace non-date with date when Find box won't allow a non-date entry?

Hi!  I'm importing approximately 100 "Line Lists" of people with COVID19 in congregate care facilities (Nursing Homes, et.) per day.  Each list has a lot of other data to be cleaned as well - demographic and symptoms.  I am getting overwhelmed by the number of tables and the number of typos in each.  Doing some of the cleanup systematically in Power Query would be a huge help.

Thank you very much for your help! 

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v-frfei-msft
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Hi @Ohappyday ,

 

Hope this article can help you.

https://peltiertech.com/importing-cleaning-data-power-query/

If it doesn't meet your requirement,  kindly share your sample data and excepted result to me if you don't have any Confidential Information. Please upload your files to One Drive for Business and share the link here.

 

Community Support Team _ Frank
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the others find it more quickly.

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v-frfei-msft
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Community Support

Hi @Ohappyday ,

 

Hope this article can help you.

https://peltiertech.com/importing-cleaning-data-power-query/

If it doesn't meet your requirement,  kindly share your sample data and excepted result to me if you don't have any Confidential Information. Please upload your files to One Drive for Business and share the link here.

 

Community Support Team _ Frank
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the others find it more quickly.
edhans
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You are going to need to provide sample data and explain what is is you have, and what you want the expected result to be.

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